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Ten years ago Sunday, the unthinkable happened: That diabolical cabal of 19 men — most of them 20-somethings from Saudi Arabia, many of them highly educated — commandeered four jets in the American Northeast and slammed them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.

At a ceremony at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, 21-year-old Peter Negron, the son of 9/11 victim Pete Negron, said he feels his father's absence every day.

"I've stopped crying, but I haven't stopped missing my dad," he said. "I wish my dad had been there to teach me how to drive, ask a girl on a date and see me graduate from high school. And a hundred other things."

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, we once again witnessed nationwide displays of unity and mourning, though such tributes had to contend with a decade in which matters of memory and remembrance were more complicated, shaped as much by trauma, heroism, and tragic loss as by the realities of power, politics and war. Hopefully, we will learn that there were many tempered forms of patriotism and national unity that offered Americans an opportunity to engage more fully with a decade-long series of memories. Whenever we honor the victims and survivors of 9/11, we should not be reluctant to engage also in public dialogue about both the legacy and the politics that precipitated and emerged from the events that took place on that tragic day.